Damian Thompson is Editor of Telegraph Blogs and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was once described by The Church Times as a "blood-crazed ferret". He is on Twitter as HolySmoke. His latest book is The Fix: How addiction is taking over your world. He also writes about classical music for The Spectator.

This claim has just surfaced on Twitter, from investigative journalist Ed Howker. He says Hari has been suspended for two months "pending internal Independent investigation" by the paper's founding editor Andreas Whittam Smith.